Design Leadership Jobs in New York, United States of America
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Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States, 97-30 57th Avenue, New York, NY 11368, United States of America
Council On Foreign Relations 🇺🇸 United States, 97-30 57th Avenue, New York, NY 11368, United States of America
Produce polished, high-quality design across digital products, branding, editorial features, print publications, and organizational campaigns while maintaining CFR’s brand standards. Provide design feedback, lead complex initiatives, collaborate with freelance creatives and cross-functional teams, and develop reusable templates and design documentation.
Head of Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Profound 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead and grow the design team while setting the long-term vision for an AI-native product experience. You will partner with leadership to shape product strategy and ensure all shipped work meets an exceptionally high standard of quality.
Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Council On Foreign Relations 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Design Manager will produce high-quality design work across digital and print platforms while maintaining brand consistency. They will also provide creative feedback to the team and manage design documentation and templates to ensure scalable output.
Senior Design Manager - AI Monitoring & Management
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Datadog 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead a team of four designers to drive end-to-end product experiences across agent observability, GPU monitoring, and agent console. Partner with product and engineering leadership to shape strategy while mentoring the team and maintaining a high bar for design quality.
Technical Design Manager
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Janie And Jack Llc 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own fit, construction, and technical execution across apparel categories, maintaining standards and ensuring products meet design, quality, safety, and manufacturability requirements. Lead technical problem-solving with internal teams and suppliers, use customer and product-performance data to address systemic issues, and manage and develop technical design support.
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Senior Design Manager, Women's Knitwear
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Pvh Corp. 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Design Manager leads the design process for women's knitwear, conceptualizing innovative collections while ensuring brand alignment and quality standards. They collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor junior designers to drive the success of the knitwear line in the fashion market.
Senior Design Manager - Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Datadog 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the design systems team to define the direction, roadmap, and quality standards for the DRUIDS system. Partner with product designers, engineers, and PMs to build tools and workflows that integrate design systems into the product development lifecycle.
Director of Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Siro 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Director of Product Design will own the end-to-end design craft, quality, and design systems for mobile and web surfaces. They will partner with leadership to influence the product roadmap and represent the voice of the customer through direct field research.
Director of Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Siro 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will own the end-to-end product design, including the design system, mobile and web interfaces, and AI-driven interactions. You will also partner with leadership to define product strategy, conduct user research, and maintain high standards of craft across the team.
About Design Leadership careers
Design leaders in 2026 set the strategic vision for design organizations navigating an AI-saturated market. This role requires a balance of craft expertise and high-level business acumen to advocate for design's value at the executive level.
Effective leaders foster a culture of technical agency, establishing systems that allow human creativity and machine efficiency to coexist.
Companies like Stripe and Airbnb seek VPs and Directors of Design who can scale teams and align design strategy with long-term business objectives.
We feature senior leadership positions including Design Directors, Heads of Design, VP of Design, Chief Design Officers, and design team leads at companies like Meta, Google, Airbnb, Stripe, and fast-growing AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. These roles span product design, brand, and cross-functional design organizations.
Many companies offer remote design leadership roles, including distributed-first companies like Notion, Linear, GitLab, and Vercel. AI companies like Midjourney and Anthropic also hire remote design leaders. Some companies prefer hybrid arrangements for VP+ positions.
Most positions require 8–15+ years of design experience with 3–5+ years managing teams. Strong candidates demonstrate strategic thinking, team building, stakeholder management, and a track record of shipping successful products at companies like Figma, Spotify, Netflix, or emerging AI startups. Browse leadership portfolios to see how experienced designers showcase their impact.
Design leadership salaries are highly competitive: Design Directors earn $160k–$240k, VPs of Design $220k–$350k+, and CDOs at major companies can exceed $400k with significant equity packages. AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Databricks often offer premium total compensation. Consult our salary guide for detailed breakdowns.